Managing Diabetes

Physical Activity & Fitness and Accusplit Pedometer Combo

To help motivate you to speak to your doctor about starting a fitness program and track your performance, Joslin is offering a special price when you buy both Staying Healthy with Diabetes -- Physical Activity & Fitness and an ACCUSPLIT Pedometer. Physical activity is an important part of managing your diabetes and maintaining a healthy weight. This offer can help lead you to the healthy lifestyle goal you are striving for!

Physical activity is good for everyone, but it is especially important for people with diabetes because it improves the body's ability to handle glucose.

Staying Healthy with Diabetes - Physical Activity & Fitnessexplains how physical activity can lower your blood glucose by improving your body's ability to use both glucose and insulin. It also provides information about weight loss, managing highs and lows during physical activity, exercising when you have other physical limitations and how to avoid the road blocks to fitness.

ACCUSPLIT Eagle 2720-xBX Pedometer -- Walkingcan help improve your diabetes, control your weight, your cholesterol and your blood pressure -- and make you feel better! Count your daily number of steps by wearing a pedometer. Put it on in the morning and see how many steps you take in an average day -- then try to increase that number each week. Your glucose control will improve and you’ll feel better, too.